Porites and Poritid Corals
17 entries in the Porites and Poritid Corals compendium.
GonioporaA challenging colonial stony coral with daisy-like polyps.Goniopora columnaA colonial stony coral with columnar mounds and long polyps.Goniopora stokesiA near-threatened colonial stony coral with a reputation among aquarists.Goniopora tenuidensA common Indo-Pacific coral resistant to bleaching and disease.PoritesA stony coral genus with finger-like morphology and paleoclimate utility.Porites astreoidesA common Caribbean coral lacking finger-like form.Porites branneriAn encrusting coral with knobbly projections, found in shallow Caribbean waters.Porites compressaA slow-growing, long-lived stony coral of Indo-Pacific reefs.Porites cylindricaBranching reef-building coral dominant in shallow Indo-Pacific waters.Porites furcataA common Caribbean stony coral forming dense clumps of slender lobes.Porites lobataA resilient, slow-growing reef-building coral of the Indo-Pacific.Porites luteaMassive Indo-Pacific coral that forms microatolls used for sea-level research.Porites nodiferaA hardy dome coral tolerant of high salinity and disease.Porites poritesA slow-growing stony coral found in the Caribbean and West Africa.Porites sp.A stony coral genus with finger-like morphology and paleoclimate utility.StylaraeaMonotypic genus of the smallest zooxanthellate corals.Thick finger coralRare Hawaiian coral found almost exclusively in Kāne‘ohe Bay.
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